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Treat humerus fracture at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown

2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$2,886.72

Cash price

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$3,608.40

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$427.70 with Nebraska Total Care vs $2,085.66 with Medica Exchange Insure — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Nebraska Total Care Managed Medicaid $427.70 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $456.17 ↓ -84%
Molina Medicare Advantage $465.29 ↓ -84%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $465.29 ↓ -84%
Humana Medicare Advantage $478.98 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $478.98 ↓ -83%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $478.98 ↓ -83%
Avera Health Plan Commercial $684.26 ↓ -76%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $900.53 ↓ -69%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $993.40 ↓ -66%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $993.40 ↓ -66%
Aetna HMO $1,082.94 ↓ -62%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $1,168.70 ↓ -60%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $1,211.05 ↓ -58%
Aetna PPO $1,318.85 ↓ -54%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $1,417.36 ↓ -51%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $1,417.36 ↓ -51%
United Healthcare PPO $1,505.67 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare HMO $1,505.67 ↓ -48%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $1,861.93 ↓ -36%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $2,085.66 ↓ -28%

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Treat humerus fracture at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $2,632.00 $248.02 – $1,326.54
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $2,632.00 $456.17 – $1,513.40
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $2,632.00 $405.44 – $1,592.36
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $2,632.00 $393.93 – $1,541.92
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $2,632.00 $456.17 – $1,211.05
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $2,632.00 $184.30 – $1,557.36
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Bettendorf $2,632.00 $291.25 – $1,377.16
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